Invisible Cities Sociology

After reading all fourth articles, I believe I have a stronger understanding of sociology. However, it is complex and I still have a lot to learn to fully grasp the significance of sociology. One thing I’ve never thought to analyze is social location which is seen in all four articles. Social location is an important concept in sociology because it gives you a better understanding of what category people belong to in society. What makes up a social location is obviously the location, race, religion, gender, and culture.

Anderson argues that common rhythms of societal response can be identified in similar public spaces. It is clear that the way individuals behave in noisy environments where they are constantly avoiding interaction with objects and bodies differs from convivial mingling. Alternatively, Anderson claims that places that exhibit similar patterns of vitality, usage, and organization have similar social traits (Anderson 67). To illustrate this, relatively busy and safe spaces open any frenzy is given slight regulation regardless of whether these spaces are libraries, museums, retail centers, squares, or parks. It appears that these places are marked by the ethos of researched trust in the situation. Mechanisms are used to negotiate bodies and space in these environments. These mechanisms appear to render the familiar strange and the strange familiar. Transactions are carried out in a safe and efficient manner: threat resulting from anticipation of violence, anxiety, and fear is always avoided. The participants have appreciated the benefits consciously and tactful in public places. Social experiences in public places domesticate diversity and complexities in urban places (Burfeind 18).

A critical analysis of the movie The Blind Side provides examples of the sport topics Race and Ethnicity, community in sport, and sport in parent-child interactions, and the human communication concept of interpersonal. Race and ethnicity in the world of sport varies, an ethnic group or ethnicity is a population group whose members identify with each other on the basis of common nationality or shared cultural traditions. The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics which usually results from genetic ancestry. An example of race is brown, white, or black skin all from various parts of the world, while an example of ethnicity is German or Spanish ancestry

The city, Toronto in this case, presents a web of streets and geographical space that threatens to lock its citizens in a certain demarcated way of life and conduct. The four key characters in this narrative - Tuyen, Carla, Jackie, and Oku - each feel blocked in by the constrained locality that they have been born into and each attempts to escape it in his own way.: Tuyen by being an artist, Carla by being a courier; Oku by being a student and Jackie by working in a store. The first two not only attempt to escape by means of their profession using their profession to either flee the spaces and squares (by bike) or transcend it via imagination (by art) but they also adopt profession that go against societal expectations. These societal expectations were created by, and exist within the geographical space they live in. Toronto of the late 20th century had an internalized set of expectations for immigrants and its citizens. The parents of the characters succumbed to it. The protagonists, however, resolved to step out of their boundaries and most of them succeeded.

In addition, she extends the idea of eyes upon the street showing that using and watching the street not only guarantees the safety, but it makes the street more attractive. She argues: “the sight of people attracts still other people” (37). Here, she points out the fact that people like watching other people and activities around them. Nobody likes places where there is nothing to see or to do. Interesting streets are attractive because we see different people, and different activities or businesses. In short, the more a street is frequented, the more it is secure and interesting and vice-versa. Safe streets and sidewalks contribute to the economic expansion of the city and the social fulfillment of people. Then we can conclude that safety is a one of primordial factor to the social and economic development of the city.

However, the mother also expects that Vanessa will save her from the shame of her divorce by providing status and respect. Given such high demands, Vanessa feels a sense of desperation not only at their poverty but also at her mother’s brand of “emotional terrorism” that seeks to hold her responsible for bringing the family

People are influenced by their surroundings; people from the city tend to accomplish more than their rural counterparts. Those in the city are considered to have a modern life and this lifestyle tends to fall into the mundane according to Alain de Botton’s “On Habit” this jadedness is due to the busyness of the average city dweller. Examples of this can be seen in Adam Gopnik’s “Bumping into Mr.Ravioli.” In “Bumping into Mr.Ravioli” the reader is able to see how a few residents of New York City deal with their relationships as they get sucked into the busyness. In Alain de Botton 's “On Habit” he goes over how residence of an area become jaded and bored with the areas they inhabit and they simply do not care enough to experience their surroundings, and this ties in with “Bumping into Mr.Ravioli” because it explains that New Yorkers are too busy to even try to enjoy their relationships, be it with family or friends. These conditions are perfect for the growth of various large events within cities; these events allow city dwellers to blow off steam. They seem to consolidate all the time they do have into just a few events in order to make their free time more memorable.

Throughout the world of suburbia, there seems to be a persistence of communities who attempt to create a perfect, enclosed world for the whole of the community to live in. By providing for everything that the inhabitants would ever want, suburbia is able to close itself off from those around it that it deems unworthy of belonging. While this exclusivity helps to foster the sense of community, it can also bring with it isolation from the outside, and also from within, and have disastrous results. Throughout the semester, there have been a number of works that have dealt the issue of isolation, but the greatest representation of a work whose physical qualities in its representation of suburbia help to

There is a diverse culture in rural areas that range from social activities such as farming and high school sports, among other traditional activities such as drinking. Sometimes, the society of a rural community can easily force someone to be conformed to a given lifestyle that they may not enjoy, or even do well with. Small towns, when compared to bigger cities are generally not as busy. The infrastructures in the rural areas are also not as complex as the urban ones. The level of technology is usually not as advanced as well. For these reasons, people living in smaller towns normally occupy out ordinary careers to earn a living. There are also particular interaction activities, which bring people from various places together. Making decisions in small towns is more collective than bigger towns because the individuals in small towns are typically idle and almost always ready to participate in certain acts. This paper highlights some of the cultural behaviors that are inherent in small towns.

According to newworldencyclopedia.org, sociological concepts such as “social distance” and “the marginal man” were first used by American urban sociologist Robert Ezra Park in 1982. (Used source: newworldencyclopedia.org) By Wikipedia this term is defined as “a situation in which an individual suspended between 2 cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity”. In addition to this, Wikipedia has another definition too, which says that marginalization is “a social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society”. (Used source: Wikipedia.org) For me, marginalization simply means being outside of a particular society or culture. Consequently, marginal can be the person who is wealthy or poor or is in the middle class.

The invisible people taught us that when we filled the need of identity it is possible to understand others and recovered yourself internally, as happened to Tommy who after being kidnapped was able to stay with his keepers, although he had the opportunity to go back to his biological father, as Marx theories the invisible people represented the equality in a society, there is not a government for only one, it is a government for all. They filled their basic needs as community, they did not have individual mentality, they all share same responsibilities, and they also have interpreted the equal development per family.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino creates an assortment of paintings through descriptive words and images. While various cities are written similarly, they certainly not the same and each contain their own qualities. The pair of cities that follow that theme is , Zobeide city of desire and Armilla city of Thin. Both cities depict naked women, but each is as different as night and day.

Everything changed after money. Small changed in the metropolis change everything, like George Simmel supported. It’s like living in a jinga. The money is one of these small things that change the way of living life and their attitude in the public. Money is the all reason of change in people’s daily lives which also create new classes such as burgeoise. Metropolitan individuality is di erent which is more intellectual, rational. 18th century liberation changed all the balance and understanding of money, way of using money and the reason of its devaluation. While the metropolis people are more forced and isolated, it might be easy for them to balance but the small change can alter everything in the big circle.

In the Iranian film, Children of Heaven, the city has an affect how people communicate, how they develop. Correspondingly, an urban atmosphere affects what people’s attitudes and cultures are depending on their social status is. There are many somatic setting differences between the unfortunate and the fortunate, for example what Ali’s family wears and where the family lives compared to the gated communities as shown in the film. Moreover, the consequences of the urban environment in a city. Ali and Zhara are definitely exposed to an urban environment that could potentially shape how they act, or who they become as they get older.

This illusory book entitled “invisible cities” was published in Italy in 1972, written by a very famous Italian prose writer of the postwar era, Italo Calvino. This book highlights a historical memoir of a well-known Venetian explorer named Marco Polo but focuses around a specific dialogue and a series of stories shared between Kublai Khan, emperor of Mongolia, and his right-hand man Polo in the late 1200’s. This concept of writing emphasizes the aspects of humanity and social consequences in generic city makeup and the way we become trapped in the metaphorical “inferno of living”.